On Monday, August 17, Tony Award-nominated Broadway star, singer, author, and New York Times contributor Melissa Errico returns to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor with her acclaimed concert, “The Streisand Effect: Melissa Sings Barbra.”

Melissa will be accompanied by legendary pianist Billy Stritch, a long-time collaborator of Barbra Streisand, and a swinging quartet for an evening that is funny, glamorous, and deeply personal. The show will draw inspiration from the music, mystique, and emotional impact of one of America’s most iconic entertainers.

The concert features songs like “People,” “The Way We Were,” “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” “The Music That Makes Me Dance,” and “Send in the Clowns.” It combines jazz arrangements, storytelling, and theatrical conversation into a moving exploration of ambition, reinvention, influence, and self-discovery.

We spoke to Errico to learn more ahead of her sold-out show.

What can audiences expect from the upcoming show “The Streisand Effect: Melissa Sings Barbra”?

I always tell people this isn’t an impression of Barbra Streisand. No one can “do” Barbra. What fascinates me is the effect she had on all of us — singers and people — the permission she gives artists to be utterly personal, intellectually curious, emotionally fearless, and gloriously individual. Her zaniness, her sense of humor, her intelligence, her feminism. Her fashion!

The evening is really a journey through the songs she made unforgettable, from Broadway to film to the Great American Songbook. Even her portrayal of Fanny Brice feels familiar to me since I have a real-life Ziegfeld Follies ancestry. My Aunt Rose was in shows with Fanny! I wasn’t born at the exact right time to get all these incredible messages when I started out— I’ve discovered her in depth since her new book came out. I’ve solidly arrived in midlife and feel so energized by her!

I discovered that I have been gathering favorite music and composers my whole life — Sondheim! Michel Legrand! Marvin Hamlisch! — like flowers in a vase, only to realize they are from Barbra’s own gorgeous garden. She had grown these roses exquisitely, before I realized. There are funny stories, intimate moments, and hopefully a feeling that we’re all gathered around the piano together.

So, it’s a celebration, and it’s a garden party. And, above all, I want audiences to experience the joy of great songs, beautifully played and honestly sung. The composer Shire, one of Barbra’s lifelong collaborators, and the writer Adam Gopnik helped bring to life page 729 of her biography, where she writes that someone had called her a “daughter of fire.” They wrote me a song with that title, and I think it conjures up, in a groovy 1970s sound, the force of her inspiration.

I hope that song leaves people — daughters and sons — ready to take chances.